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Before the Panama Canal was dug in 1911, Valparaiso was one of the main seaports on the passage around Cape Horn. Over the centuries, the city fell into the hands of different conquerors, and natural violence repeatedly destroyed it for the greater part. In cooperation with the university of Santiago de Chile, Joris Ivens made a semi-documentary about the daily life in Valparaiso, where the contrasts between poor and rich immediately strike the eye. Ivens chose realistic, but also poetical images. The abrupt shift from black-and-white to colour in the film marks the transition from the initial pessimistic part to the later, more hopeful images.Read More »
Chile
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Joris Ivens – …A Valparaíso (1963)
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Alejandro Jodorowsky – La danza de la realidad AKA The Dance of Reality (2013)
2011-2020Alejandro JodorowskyChileDramaFantasyIn a Chilean little town, the son of an uprooted couple, formed by a rigorous communist father and a loving but weak mother, tries to pave his own path in a society that does not understand their Jewish-Ukrainian origins.Read More »
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Rodrigo Sepúlveda – Tengo Miedo Torero AKA My Tender Matador (2020)
Drama2011-2020ChileQueer Cinema(s)Rodrigo SepúlvedaRomanceAmong gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.
3 wins & 4 nominations.Read More »
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Patricio Guzmán – Salvador Allende (2004)
2001-2010ChileDocumentaryPatricio GuzmánPoliticsChilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has lived in Europe in exile for many years
but continues to make features about his native country. His latest, the
documentary ‘Salvador Allende’, is not a classical biography (though it has
elements of that too) but rather a chronicle of a search by the filmmaker himself,
who was greatly inspired in his youth by Allende, to see what was is left in Chile
now of Allende’s legacy, and what was it then, that made Allende an inspirational
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María Paz González – Lina de Lima AKA Lina from Lima (2019)
Drama2011-2020ChileMaría Paz GonzálezSynopsis / Plot
A woman travels from Peru to work as a housekeeper in Chile.
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Patricio Guzmán – La cordillère des songes AKA The Cordillera of Dreams (2019)
2011-2020ChileDocumentaryPatricio GuzmánPoliticsQuote:
Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams completes his trilogy (with Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button) investigating the relationship between historical memory, political trauma, and geography in his native country of Chile. It centers on the imposing landscape of the Andes that run the length of the country’s Eastern border. At once protective and isolating, magisterial and indifferent, the Cordillera serves as an enigmatic focal point around which Guzmán contemplates the enduring legacy of the 1973 military coup d’état.Read More » -
Ricardo Larraín – La frontera AKA The Frontier (1991)
Drama1991-2000ChilePoliticsRicardo LarraínQuote:
Larraín won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.Quote:
This absorbing first feature explores one man’s internal exile in a country whose recent history has known the worst of political repression. Ramiro (Contreras), a Santiago teacher, is banished to a remote coastal community for putting his name to a public denunciation of the military authorities’ abduction of one of his colleagues. Read More » -
Maite Alberdi – El agente topo AKA The Mole Agent (2020)
2011-2020ChileCrimeDocumentaryMaite AlberdiQuote:
A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.Read More » -
Aldo Francia – Valparaíso Mi Amor AKA Valparaiso, My Love (1970)
1961-1970Aldo FranciaChileDramaIf one movie captures the soul of a city, this is the one. Dealing with the social problems, telling the story of three brothers, sometimes tender, sometimes raw, Aldo Francia made a masterpiece showing us a Chilean neorealism movie. The dark and natural cinematography goes very well with this feature. The bitter story of a family with a father in jail, a mother and three brothers fighting against poverty and an unfair society, who rejects them even between another rejected people. Francia makes this bitter story with no weeping scenes or political speeches: is very real, very beautiful and very shocking.Read More »